Dr. Leon James
Dr. Leon James has been Professor of Psychology at the University Hawaii since 1971. He has also held academic positions at McGill University, Laval University, University of Wisconsin, and University of Illinois. Since 1960 he has conducted research, published articles and books, and taught courses in several scientific specialty subjects that include the following: social-personality theory and measurement; statistics and research design; psycholinguistics and ethnosemantics; ethnomethodology...See more
Dr. Leon James has been Professor of Psychology at the University Hawaii since 1971. He has also held academic positions at McGill University, Laval University, University of Wisconsin, and University of Illinois. Since 1960 he has conducted research, published articles and books, and taught courses in several scientific specialty subjects that include the following: social-personality theory and measurement; statistics and research design; psycholinguistics and ethnosemantics; ethnomethodology and intersubjectivity; discourse analysis; language learning and teaching; library and information science; driving psychology; road rage; sidewalk rage; air rage; the spiritual psychology of Emanuel Swedenborg; theistic psychology; cyberpsychology; marriage and couplehood. Dr. James is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry, and he is on the Editorial Board of various academic journals including Acta Psychopathologica Journal. He regularly consults with safety organizations and institutions worldwide on driving psychology. He is considered an expert on "road rage", "air rage" and "sidewalk rage", and has given well over one thousand newspaper interviews and media appearances. In 1997 he was among the first to give expert testimony to the Transportation Sub-Committee of the U.S. Congress on the then emerging topic of road rage and aggressive driving. Since then road rage and aggressive driving have continued to increase, killing thousands of victims every year and injuring millions of people yearly. His book with Diane Nahl Road Rage and Aggressive Driving (2000) provides behavioral methods to help drivers gain control over their traffic emotions. These methods have been taught to thousands of people throughout the United States who are preparing to obtain a driver's license. For the past thirty years he has focused his research especially on the Writings of Swedenborg, looking for ways to transform Swedenborg's spiritual reports and ideas into the language and theory of modern scientific psychology. Leon James coined the expression "theistic psychology" in 1990. He acknowledges that Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) is the actual founder of theistic psychology, even though Swedenborg himself did not use this expression. This book is the latest instance of that continuing task of bringing Swedenborg's ideas to the science of psychology and the practice of self-analysis. See less
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